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Friday, July 1, 2011

Hello, I am so excited I finally finished this Dining Set! If you read my previous posting on the dilemma on what should I do to Redo this Beautiful Antique Set, well finally I have finished the job.

This was a very vintage 1924 Crocker Chair Company set 6 chairs and 3 leafs which I purchased and restored. I listed this as an antique on Craigslist. No success and my Shabby Sole told me to do it in the Shabby Style in the first place, but that is a long story to why I didn't. Well now it is Shabbied and I love the results!

I want to thank Kristy at http://4theloveofwood.blogspot.com/ she was the only one to comment on my post and I really appreciated that. She was on the same creative thought as myself, so off I went to buy drop cloth and get to work painting the set.

BEFORE

Sanding the purchase

6 chairs which I had to remove the blue seat coversand found a second cover that was too stained, so I put on the maroon materialfor the first redo.

This came out very nice after 4 coats of Walnut stainwhich is the original color. I had 3 leafs, which also were sanded and stained.

Captain chair, wonderful wood details
notice some of the leafs in the background

All finished and I am very glad to have my Shabby mind free to work on other pieces of furniture,
I feel good about this and the new life this set does have!
Thank you for looking!

Update: This Set was sold in 16 days to a Wonderful Young Family, that makes me very happy it has a Home! Shabby Success! Thank you again Kristy @ 4 the Love of Wood!
Linking To:http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/

5 comments:

I got your email on my way home via my blackberry and couldn't wait to see the results on the home pc. FABULOUS!!!! So glad you did it and it definetly turned out great. All the work you did to finish the top surface now offers such a deliciously rich look against all the white charm.Kristy @ 4 the love of WOOD